We have a $31 trillion national debt. When Reagan left office in January 1989, the national debt was $2.8 trillion. We can’t keep spending. We are broke.
The Russians are not a threat to NATO like the Soviets were. Russia is a country of 150 million with a GDP that is dwarfed by the EU and the US. Our aid to Ukraine this year is more than the annual Russian defense budget.
Our investment to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan had subsequent consequences. It helped spawn the creation of AQ that led to 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc.
The money spent so far on Ukraine has been from “inventory.” That inventory was created to drop on the Russians. Hardly any of the munitions used on Ukraine would be used against China—and China has their own set of problems.
So, your fear is unfounded. We are using the weapons we already built on the foe we built them for. And we are not even using “the good stuff.”
If we had sent them A-10s and F-35s, bigger kamikaze drones and longer range HiMars....this thing would have been over last March.